Inducing sex change and organogenesis from tissue culture in the endangered African cycad Encephalartos woodii (Cycadales, Zamiaceae)
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: If incipient sex chromosome differentiation is caused by differential methylation
between females and males, then
methylating or demethylating cytosine
nucleotides may induce sex change.
Methylation may also stimulate regeneration
of roots and shoots from tissue culture callus
and increase genetic variation via greater
mutation. We propose using these methods
for conserving Encephalartos woodii , for
which only a single male clone exists, sex
change has never been induced, and regeneration
from callus tissue has not been accomplished.
Source: South African Journal of Science
Authors: Root Gorelick, Roy Osborne
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1499549637